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One of the blog marketing sites, DoshDosh recently suggested that it may be possible to get into the top 100 favourites on Technorati relatively easily.

Whilst we’ve all been beavering away in building up links back to our blogs, it will take a “while” to get to the top 100 linked to blogs as number 100 is currently sitting at over 3000 links. On the other hand, it would only require just over 100 200 people to favorite us to get into the top 100 favorited blogs which certainly seems in the realms of possibility.

Why bother though? Well, being in a top 100 list of anything is almost certain to increase the traffic on the blog and indeed quite likely to increase the number of blogs linking to us for that matter.

Anyway, if you’re interested in exchanging favourites in this way you can start the ball rolling by clicking

and letting me know that you’ve done it in a comment to this post (quote your Technorati username so I can confirm the link).

A link back in a post would also be appreciated and reciprocated.

Those also offering link exchange are listed below:

List of blogs offering Technorati Favorites’ Exchange programmes:

1. NiaTrading Signals – Alex 3071
2. Domestic Divapalooza – Angela Llewellyn Stevens
3. Anitokid by Anitokid –
4. AskaX World – Andika Kusuma
5. Tech Lock Rahul – Rahul
6. Bigfoot Sightings – Linda Martin
7. Azazil.net – Gary V. Vaughan
8. Nukilan Jejari Azhad by Shaz Azhad –
9. Fyais by fyais –
10. BlogOp – Chris Lodge
11. Design Adaptations – Charity Ondriezek
12. Spyware, Adware and Security News
13. Digital Information Technology – Atul Dogra
14. How to Earn Money Blogging – Daryl Lau
15. Make Money Online: Quick n’ Easy Way – EJ Cooksey
16. Genius Type – Brian Lee
17. Keeping Fit is a Daily Battle
18. India PR Blog by India PR Blogspot –
19. The Rojak Blog – Ap0gEE
20. Lifecruiser – Lifecruiser
21. Me and My Net – Anoop Kumar Singh
22. Manila Mom – Maia Jose
23. MLM Gossip
24. Panda Cube – Aki Jinn
25. Quasi Fictional – Diogenes
26. Shankar’s Tech Blog 2.0 – Shankar
27. ShanKri-La – Karthik Ramadoss
28. Share Everything in Life
29. Dox – Rahul
30. My Online Collections by star500k –
31. Table4Five – Elizabeth
32. TechChee.com
33. Ordinary Folk – Mike
34. (weeding done to here)
35. T Jantunen.com by T Jantunen –
36. Vinod Live! by Vinod Ponmanadiyil –
37. Online Business News – Tammy Ames
38. Wampago – Chris
39. Webtools@Desinet1
40. Show Me The Money by Gerri –
41. Armen’s Blog – Fave it
42. Article Discovery Politics by David Greene –
43. Philippine Home Design and Improvement Blog
44. Home Based Business by Brian Pratt –
45. Shakeroo’s Gold – Shakeroo
46. Blue Sky Brothers – Greg Meares
47. Brown Thoughts by Brown Baron –
48. Business Sanity – Susan Martin
49. CalvinWarr.com by Calvin Warr –
50. Can’t Coach That by Coach McGee –
51. Career Ramblings – Fave the Site
52. The Pond – Karen
53. ContentPays.info by Yogesh –
54. Creative Design – David Airey
55. Random Expressions – Deepak Jeswal
56. Digital Phocus – Brendan Monaghan
57. Dosh Dosh – Fave it
58. Eat Drink & Be Merry – Fave it
59. Ed Lau – Fave it
60. eJabs.com by Matthew Jabs –
61. Everyday Weekender – Fave it
62. (exceptional) work.com – Jon
63. Life in the Fast Lane by Deborah –
64. Foreign Perspectives by Arnold –
65. Gauravonomics by Gaurav –
66. Hannes Johnson – Fave it
67. Ramblings from the Marginalized – Fave the Site
68. Homemaker Diary – MQ
69. Internet Serious Business by The Troll –
70. iReview – iReview
71. JesterTunes – Jester
72. Jimi Morrisons Head – Fave it
73. Jon Lee – Fave it
74. Julies Journal – Fave it
75. Kabatology – Kabatology
76. Klamath Design by Linda –
77. Sleeping Princess
78. MLM Forums online marketing blog by Jens P. Berge –
79. MrGaryLee.com by Gary Lee –
80. Msdanielle.com by Danielle –
81. My Dandelion Patch – Fave it
82. Nate Whitehill – Fave it
83. Nathan Drach – Fave it
84. Net Business Blog – Fave the Site
85. Life Rocks! 2.0 by Nirmal T V –
86. Real Amber – Real Amber
87. Reality Wired – James
88. Revvi::blog – Revvi Sudirnoputra
89. Riskiraj by Rishiraj –
90. Romance Tracker by Phil Van Treuren –
91. Samanathon – Fave it
92. Scribble on the Wall – Fave it
93. Serendipity by Sharique–
94. Shadow Scope by Richard –
95. SiteLogic – Fave it
96. Sizlopedia – Sizlopedia
97. SMO Blog – Mark Blair
98. SMS Today by Foxtucker–
99. Square Cookies – Square Cookies
100. SquareCookies
101. Stephen Fung – Fave it
102. Syaf the Geek by Syafrizal Abu Mansor –
103. TechLivez.com – Tech Livez
104. Technacular by Vikas Sah –
105. TechnoDiary – Sahil Gupta
106. Technospot.net by Ashish Mohta –
107. TeknoBites by Ram –
108. The Blog Columnist – The Blog Columnist
109. Filipino Entrepreneur by Filipino Entrepreneur –
110. The Thinking Blog by ilker yoldas –
111. Untwisted Vortex – RT Cunningham
112. UrgentClick by Andy –
113. Vacilamos! – Ari
114. Online Diary – Venu
115. VersaCreations by Vivienne Quek –
116. My Affiliate Journey
117. Inklings: The Copywriter’s Blog by Walter Burek –
118. My Life My Story –My Passion – Yong Kai Loon
119. Zath by Simon Barker –
120. Digital Art World Blog –
121. Blogtology –
122. The Outsider’s View – Javier Altman
123. Making Money through Internet – MarriedMelody
124. Earn Money on the Web – Kent
125. Blogs et IE – T@Blogoshere
126. Spark Minute – David Spark
127. Uncleboob – Uncleboob *
128. IT Experts Central – IT Experts Central *
129. Tech Freak – Kanak *
130. sophistishe – Sheena *

SUGGESTION: once you’ve gone through and faved everyone on this list, add a comment saying you’ve done that and subscribe to the comments. That’ll pick up anyone new appearing here. ‘Tis also worthwhile to run up a favourites exchange page of your own; if you do, mention that here and I’ll add you on which get’s both of us a link. 

IMPORTANT: I’m running various separate blog promotions at the moment so you need to put a comment here to say that you’ve favourited me as I can’t tell from the Technorati info whether or not new favourites are arriving because of this post.

TRAVEL/EXPAT/IMMIGRATION/EMMIGRATION RELATED SITES: let me know if your blog covers topics in the areas of travel, expat or immigration/emmigration matters as I will consider blogroll exchanges with sites in those areas.

WEEDING: a number of those listed here are no longer participating in the exchange; I’m in the process of weeding out those that aren’t so this list will be shrinking drastically over the next few days weeks months.

LINK BACK: As I have dofollow for comments, you should automatically get a linkback to your blog when I approve any comments written here. I’d appreciate it if you’d return the favour 🙂

It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was writing the first post of this blog to say that we’d gotten the mortgage for our place in France yet that was 199 posts ago, hence this retrospective on life as a blogger since then.

Those of you who have been reading this since the start may remember the days when it was Mas Camps News. At that time, the bulk of the postings were on topics relating to the preparations for our move to France and later on various aspects of settling into life in France. We’re gradually collecting the fruits of our experience of this on our Buying a House in France postings so that others can learn from our mishaps and mistakes.

Eventually we managed to pass the hurdles that the French administration put seemingly at every step of our journey though it wasn’t really as bad as that. In fact, most of the time all we needed was a “roadmap” to guide us as to where to go at each point and hopefully the reference version of our series on moving to France will eventually amount to that for those who come after us.

The end of the hurdles seemed to come all of a sudden and y’all can see when that happened by glancing at the number of posts per month. One day we looked and found that there’d been nothing written for months! It wasn’t that we weren’t busy but that there wasn’t much particularly new or striking to write about after we’d broken through the barrier of French administration, or nothing that would fit within the confines of Mas Camps News at any rate.

But over that time of nothing there was quite a buildup of topics that we should have been writing about and so the blog was reborn in its new home just last Summer. No more is it “Mas Camps News” for we’ve pretty much settled into life here and though it retains aspects of its incarnation as “Living in France without a TV crew” it’s quite a different beastie these days touching on pretty much everything that we come across here and when we’re out and about.

The main thing that has changed though is that it’s living as a proper blog these days rather than a hi-tech newsletter for the folks back home. That’ll probably change things a lot over the next 200 entries as we’re attracting readers from the outside world these days. Indeed just recently we were asked by France24 to contribute our views on the upcoming French election.

We’ve also recently given birth to a second blog where Wendy’s getting started on discussing life from an Australian perspective and we’re even considering a third (’tis an addictive hobby).

Initially we just included our blog on the marketing lists for our other sites but quite quickly found out that a lot of places list blogs in a peculiar way or don’t list them at all so we’ve been looking around for other ways to get our blog known.The business of blogging is relatively new and so a lot of places aren’t quite sure what to do with them. Many site directories are set up on the basis that the sites on them are fairly static but that’s one thing that’s definitely not the case with active blogs. They also have the characteristic of being local news in many cases and whilst I’m sure it’ll be quite a while before we get mentioned on a news bulletin we are actually listed on one service which in turn feeds into Reuters, USA Today and FoxNews.